America's shining gem is our personal liberty and freedom.
Free to think and act on our thoughts without encumbrance.
I stepped back and read what I just wrote and need to clarify;
We are free as capitalists to think and invent and act on what we've thought.
THAT has been our crowning achievement and contribution to mankind and the planet ...
I don't know the percentage of what nation contributed what (though I'm pretty sure the muslims have contributed nothing, no matter WHAT the fascilitator in chief may say), I DO know that many men have left other lands to come here and take that silly, unreadable scratching on a cafe' napkin and build an empire from it (I made that up, but you get the idea)
As long as we think, and act on our thoughts, we are free ... and mighty ... men.
Good post.
Hear, hear!